Re: Getting rid of explorers

FROM : David Remahl
DATE : Fri Jan 18 18:49:35 2002

> When I clicked on "Technotes" in the Apple Documentation, the Internet
> Explorer came up, which I did not like.
> So I changed the application responsibel for 'html', 'HTML', etc. to
> OmniWeb.
> No good.
> I renamed the unwanted Explorer.
> No good.
> I copied it to some other location, deleted the thing in /Applications
> No good.
> I copied it to my Next-computer, deleting it on my Mac.
> No good.
> I disconnected my Next-computer from the Mac.
> Finally no more explorer! But instead of using the already running
> OmniWeb a new copy of it was started, which is also a bit silly.
>
> I guess that this very persistent behaviour of the explorer has
> something to do with aliases.
> Is there some documentation, which explains aliases, the HFS+ filesystem
> and similar things?
>
> Gerriet.

Ever tried to set OmniWeb as your preferred browser in the Internet System
Preference? :)

The Inside Macintosh and Inside Carbon will give you information on aliases.
Aliases are good.

/ david